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Zagare - Litvaks & Lithuanians Confront the Past (Paperback)
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Zagare - Litvaks & Lithuanians Confront the Past (Paperback)
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Loot Price R365
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When veteran broadcaster Sara Manobla represented Israel at an
international conference of journalists in Moscow in 1977, little
did she realise that her contact with the Jews of the Soviet Union
would become the start of her own voyage of self-discovery. Her
commitment to the cause of the refuseniks and her involvement with
them once the gates of emigration opened and they arrived in Israel
eventually led to an exploration of her own family history.
Together with her cousin, she embarked on a roots journey to
Zagare, a little shtetl on the border between Lithuania and Latvia.
Here she met Isaac Mendelssohn, the sole survivor of the town's
Jewish community. Unexpectedly, a meaningful and fruitful
relationship developed between Isaac, a group of descendants and a
group of local inhabitants, a relationship always shadowed by
memories of the slaughter in 1941 of Zagare's Jewish population by
Nazis and local Lithuanian collaborators. The culmination came in
2012 with a joint project of the two groups to erect and dedicate a
memorial plaque in the centre of the town. As part of her desire to
accept Zagare, Sara Manobla followed up on the story of an elderly
Jewish woman and her granddaughter who had been rescued and hidden
by a Zagarean family during the Nazi occupation. She tracked down
the granddaughter, now living in Jerusalem, and her testimony
resulted in the Zagarean family being posthumously honoured by Yad
Vashem Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority as
Righteous among the Nations. The book ends on a note of hope and
reconciliation, as this account of a search for roots leads to a
coming to terms with today s highly charged relationship between
Lithuanians and Jews.
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